Ecommerce Business in Pakistan is on the rise. Despite tough economic conditions and technological constraints, there’re few enthusiasts who’re tirelessly making efforts to get the ecommerce business in Pakistan to next level. Arslan Nazir, the founder of Shophive.com, is one such person who has been in the ecommerce business for last eight years. He has grown this business from scratch to what it is today. [...]

Telenor’s on-going network modernization project, which has reportedly caused disruption in service quality and availability – as we discussed in the past – is going to get completed by year end, said Gyorgy Koller, Chief Technology Officer, Telenor Pakistan in an interview with ProPakistani. During this interview with Gyorgy Koller, ProPakistani tried to figure out the current state of the network up-gradation project, its scope, [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Declan Byrne, President of WiMAX forum, the global body that certifies and promotes the compatibility and interoperability of WiMAX products and services, recently visited Pakistan to meet with regulator and government officials to help them understand the challenges being faced by WiMAX operators in Pakistan. Along with local partners, WiMAX forum has put immense efforts in streamlining the WiMAX businesses in [...]

Kwick High Tech and Solutions is the only manufacturer of GSM SIM cards in Pakistan, offering local cellular operators the ability to get locally manufactured SIM cards with global standards and at better costs, told Mr. Waseem Rafi, CEO Kwick, to ProPakistani in an exclusive interview yesterday. Kwick High Tech has complete capabilities to meet current requirements of GSM industry including 2G and 3G Java [...]

Mr. D. Y. Kim was appointed as the President of LG Electronics, Gulf FZE in January 2012. With deep insight into the electronics industry due to its professional and educational path, Mr. Kim has been with LG Electronics since 1989. Mr. D.Y.Kim was recently in Pakistan and we had a chance to interact with him for an interview via email. Following is what he had [...]

PTCL will invest Rs. 100 billion in Pakistan in next five years, said Mr. Walid Irshaid in an interview with Business Recorder. He said that source of funding can be debt to equity combination, while the investment will be focused on variety of areas with in the company including expansion. Mr. Irshaid said that PTCL was a state run monopoly telephone company before privatization, while [...]

Unreasonable Institute is a mentor-intensive accelerator for startup entrepreneurs hungry to tackle the world’s greatest social and environmental problems. Founded in 2010, the Unreasonable Institute annually unites 25 high-impact entrepreneurs from around the world in Boulder, Colo. for six weeks. During that time, the entrepreneurs live and work with 60 world-class mentors, pitch their ventures to hundreds of investors in San Francisco and Boulder, obtain [...]

Tameer Microfinance Bank and Telenor Pakistan will provide money transfer services through Easypaisa channels to hundreds of pensioners registered with Employees Old-Aged Benefits (EOBI). Nadeem Hussain, CEO Tameer Microfinance Bank, revealed this in an interview with ProPakistani correspondent. He said the Tameer Bank will be signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the project with EOBI official shortly to initiate the first ever project of [...]

IT companies are looking for potential opportunities with the possible emergence of 3G technology in the country as they have expertise to be engaged with different fields of ICTs related to the high-data services. This was stated by Adnan Siddiqui, country sales manager IBM Pakistan in an interview to ProPakistani. There will be lot of applications and programming need to maintain 3G technology therefore companies [...]

Pakistan’s ICT companies are competent to cash in on untapped markets of South African countries with their products and services provided that they work hard to win contracts against their rivals in China and India. Naseer A Akhtar, President and CEO of InfoTech explained the potential of South African markets in an interview with ProPakistani. African region is lucrative for Pakistan IT firms particularly the [...]

The trend of adopting IT services through Cloud Computing is promising but yet to play in full swing but its understanding in Pakistan is relatively low in comparative to some other parts in the South East Asia region. Cloud Computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe, client/server, and network computing eras. Underpinned by both technology and economic disruptions, Cloud [...]

We recently got a chance to communicate with Mr. Naeem Zamindar, CEO Wateen Telecom, through email, to have better understanding of his vision for rural community, broadband penetration into rural areas and how it can uplift the social standards in the country. ProPakistani: What is Wateen’s share for stretching broadband in rural areas? Naeem Zamindar: One of Wateen’s significant achievements in Pakistan is being the [...]

Qubee has become the fastest growing broadband network of Pakistan with focus on excellence, customer care with global standards in service quality since the start of commercial operations from June 2010. This was stated by Mubashir Naqvi, C.E.O. of Qubee, in an exclusive interview with ProPakistani. “With an aim of providing uninterrupted broadband service to everyone, everyday without exception and in our first year, we [...]